What wretch from that bleak gloom staggered?
Sallow and festering and with ill-wrought garb.
A ghoul? A demon? With disquietude swaggered,
Bearing cruel rusted arms and jagged barbs.
Sallow and festering and with ill-wrought garb.
A ghoul? A demon? With disquietude swaggered,
Bearing cruel rusted arms and jagged barbs.
-Orceas, Runvar
Esper the Bard. https://youtu.be/PpT-gZ8XX_k?list=LL&t=10
His version of orcs is great... might have to buy one of his books. He's got some great descriptions like:
"The orcs prowl about, slouched and gnarled things."
"The orcs prowl about, slouched and gnarled things."
I really like his statblock sidebar Detail Options:
*Aggressive - all orcs have it: As a bonus action, the orc an move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.
*Aggressive - all orcs have it: As a bonus action, the orc an move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.
- No tongue - tongue cut out/communicates with grunts and rasps.
- Skewered Head of enemy - on a spear.
- Extremist - ... weird tattoos and body disfigurements.
- Stench -
- Deformed and scarred - face and body from combat or brutal rites.
- Iron collar - collar and chain... loose, where is the controller?
- Bestial - wears the skin of an animal's head on its head. After uses Aggressive, it can make an unarmed strike (+4 to hit, 3 bludg or pierce).
- Wrathful vengeance - if it sees enemy kill an ally, it attacks that enemy next.
- Ear necklace - elf or human ears
- Pouch of teeth - full of teeth, some humanoid.
- Cursed axe - wields a cursed +1 greataxe: you cannot unattune from it, and you take 2 (1d4) psychic dmg whenever u miss w/ an attack or att w/ a diff weapon.
- Emaciated - gaunt and malnourished, this orc is frail but disturbingly quick, moving like a starving jackal.
- Branded - skin scarred from cruel tribal brands (hot iron)
- Blood frenzy - has adv on melee weapon att against creatures / targets that have half their HP or fewer.
- The Screamer - never stops shrieking and howling in battle.
- Reckless - when it uses Aggressive, it gains adv on melee weapon att rolls until the start of its next turn, and att rolls made against it have adv during this time.
- Demon's thrall - a demonic symbol carved into forehead. It particularly hates clerics/paladins/divine char.s.
- Brutish Lout - a bigger orc, in combat it targets smallest or most physically weak enemy.
- Wild Aggression - when uses Aggressive, it can make a melee or thrown weapn attack as part of the bonus action. If miss, it falls prone and cannot stand up till its next turn.
- One handed butcher - missing a hand. Has a spike/hook/crude weapon attached.
Orc Priest Info below -
...unable to attack a creature on its turn, it takes 3d8 psychic dmg itself. If immune to Charm, also immune to Savage Frenzy.
CR1 Orc Festering-Arrow Archer
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